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Changes in BIND with update to version bind-9.9.2P2-0.11.1

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2

Situation

To improve DNSSEC handling within bind we have done a version update of bind for Service Pack 2of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11 SP2).

FATE#314615: Improve DNSSEC handling in BIND

The version bind-9.9.2P2-0.11.1 is available as update and will be installed automatically if you apply updates.

Please be aware that the following functionalities might have changed:

Change

Type

Description

3242

[func]

Extended the header of raw-format master files to include the serial number of the zone from which they were generated, if different (as in the case of inline-signing zones). This is to be used in inline-signing zones, to track changes between the unsigned and signed versions of the zone, which may have different serial numbers.(Note: raw zonefiles generated by this version of BIND are no longer compatible with prior versions. To generate a backward-compatible raw zonefile using dnssec-signzone or named-compilezone, specify output format "raw=0" instead of simply "raw".) [RT #26587]

Improved configuration syntax and multiple-view support for addzone/delzone feature (see change #2930). Removed "new-zone-file" option, replaced with "allow-new-zones (yes|no)". The new-zone-file for each view is now created automatically, with a filename generated from a hash of the view name. It is no longer necessary to "include" the new-zone-file in named.conf; this happens automatically. Zones that were not added via "rndc addzone" can no longer be removed with "rndc delzone". [RT #19447]

2800

[func]

Reject zones which have NS records which refer to CNAMEs, DNAMEs or don't have address record (class IN only). Reject UPDATEs which would cause the zone to fail the above checks if committed. [RT #20678]

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